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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
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
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 Optimization
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
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

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