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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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