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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
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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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense

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