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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
“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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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

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