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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Dealing with failure is easy.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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