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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
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 toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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

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