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

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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
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program

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