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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
In English every word can be verbed.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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