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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth

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