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

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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 man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only

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