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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
“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

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