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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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