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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
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
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
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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

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