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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
In English every word can be verbed.
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