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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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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
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
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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
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
“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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge

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