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“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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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
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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
In English every word can be verbed.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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