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

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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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 man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable

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