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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
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
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
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write

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