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" A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. "
Pictures
Picture
Only
" A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. "
Level
Attention
Language
" A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. "
Believe
Science
God
" Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. "
Science
Embarrassed
Computer Science
" Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. "
Willing
You
Ideas
" Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. "
Two
Which
Program
" Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. "
Avoid
Ignore
Suffer
" If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. "
Him
Up
You
" If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. "
Some
Parameters
Procedure
" If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. "
Computers
English
Your
" In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. "
Frustration
Obvious
Living
" In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. "
Word
Programming
English
" In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. "
Worm
Bird
Early
" Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? "
Always
Bubble
See
" It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. "
Discipline
Self
Learning
" I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. "
Live
Help
Training
" It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. "
Program
Easier
Change
" It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. "
Understand
Correct
Easier
" LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. "
Cost
Value
Nothing
" One man's constant is another man's variable. "
Variable
Another
Constant
" Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. "
Follows
Simplicity
Complexity
" Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. "
Change
Programming
Progress
" 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. "
Programming
Alice
Because
" The computing field is always in need of new cliches. "
Always
New
Cliches
" There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. "
Works
Only
Third
" You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. "
Measure
Perspective
You
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