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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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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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
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 programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
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
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

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