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

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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
“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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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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Every Program Purpose Two Written
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our

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