In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISThe 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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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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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 computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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