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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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

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