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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

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

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
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization

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