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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 man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
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
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
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
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will

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