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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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