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

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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