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

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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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

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