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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer. ' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

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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?

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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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