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

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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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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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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
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

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