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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
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
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
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
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
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
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

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