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

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote

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