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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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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
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

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