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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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 good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb

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