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

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

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word

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