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

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program

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