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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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“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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