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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
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
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void

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