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“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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 English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed

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