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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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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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

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