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

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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
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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Every Program Purpose Two Written
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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

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