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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
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
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science

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