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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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 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
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
“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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable

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