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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
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
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
“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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work

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