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

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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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