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

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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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
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, 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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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

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