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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
“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
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
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
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
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will

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