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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
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm

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