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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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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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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
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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
“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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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
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
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
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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Every Program Purpose Two Written
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages

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