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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 toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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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