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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis

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