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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.

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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
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
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
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
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
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program

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