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

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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
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
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense

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