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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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 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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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

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