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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.

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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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think

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