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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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
“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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
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
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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