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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
In English every word can be verbed.
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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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
“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
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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