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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
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
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
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
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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