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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
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
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
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
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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