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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure

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