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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
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
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman

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