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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
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
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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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
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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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