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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
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn

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