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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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

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