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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
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
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice

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