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

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland

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