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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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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
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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

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