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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed

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