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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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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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Better Data Function Operate Structure
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn

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