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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

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
“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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice

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