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

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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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