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

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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
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
In English every word can be verbed.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote

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