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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
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
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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

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