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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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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Every Program Purpose Two Written
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software

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