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

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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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing 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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
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
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
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable

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