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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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
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
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice

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