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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically

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