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Any noun can be verbed.


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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.



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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.



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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.



When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.



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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.



In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.



There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.



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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.



Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.



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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.





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Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!



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