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

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run

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