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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write

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