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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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
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 programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
“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
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
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
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
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
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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