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There is no such thing as a free variable.

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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe

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