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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word

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