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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 English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
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
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
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program

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