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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity

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