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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.

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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic

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