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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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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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up

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