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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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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