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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 language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
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
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
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
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
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
“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
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Better Data Function Operate Structure
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program

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