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

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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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
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
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong

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