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

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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
In English every word can be verbed.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
“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

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