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

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
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

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