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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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