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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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