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Optimization hinders evolution.

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
“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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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program

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