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

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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