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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
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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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization

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