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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 man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe

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