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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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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
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
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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 only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require

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