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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
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, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require

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