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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program

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