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

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In English every word can be verbed.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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
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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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