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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
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
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
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
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
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand 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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge

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