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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
“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

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