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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
“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
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
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
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm

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