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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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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 goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
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
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fermat Last Next Program Prove Theorem Today Verge
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
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
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Adjust Machine Man Must Symbiosis
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense

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