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- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
- Embarrassed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
- Bubble
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Constant
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man's constant is another man's variable.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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- Nov 07, 2020