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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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
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
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
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
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 can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity

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