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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
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
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 programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
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
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
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
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only

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