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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

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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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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

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