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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
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
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
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake

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