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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

“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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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
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
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
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
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed

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