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

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
“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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
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

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