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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn

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