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

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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
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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
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
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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

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