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One can only display complex information in the mind.

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
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
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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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

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