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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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