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

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
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
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic

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