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Optimization hinders evolution.

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
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
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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

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