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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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“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
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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