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Optimization hinders evolution.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
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
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
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word

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