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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.

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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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
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
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand 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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