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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 good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only

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