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

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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
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
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
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone

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