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

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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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
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
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward

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