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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think

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