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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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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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
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
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

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