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.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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