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

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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages

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