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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

One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent

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