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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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