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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity

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