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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
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
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
“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
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
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
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak

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