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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
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.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed

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