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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
In English every word can be verbed.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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

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