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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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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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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 can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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