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Optimization hinders evolution.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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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