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

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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think

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