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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach

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