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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
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
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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, 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
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
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
In English every word can be verbed.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void

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