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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

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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic

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