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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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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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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think

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