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“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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
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
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
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
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast

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