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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.

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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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“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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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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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