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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
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
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed

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