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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
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
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
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake

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