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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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

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