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

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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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
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
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
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run

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