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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.

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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
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
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward

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