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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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