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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View

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