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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent

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