"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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"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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"Programming is usually taught by examples."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."

W. Richard Stevens, American Scientist

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"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."

Dennis Ritchie, American Scientist

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"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."

Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist

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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."

Marc Maron, American Entertainer

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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."

Vinton Cerf, American Inventor

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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."

Alan Perlis, American Scientist

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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

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"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

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"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."

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"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."

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"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

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"One man's constant is another man's variable."

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