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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void

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