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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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 English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program 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

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