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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. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
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
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
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
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 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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand 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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
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
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work

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