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

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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice

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