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

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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb

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