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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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Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
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
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe

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