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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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