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

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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
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
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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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 LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program

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