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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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
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
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
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
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
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
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
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
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word

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