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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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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“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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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