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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
“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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe

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