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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

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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 only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak

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