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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
“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
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
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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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

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