[Gllug] Recommended Books

[Rich Walker]

Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:16:42PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
>> Secrets and Lies is like Alice in Wonderland for crypto people.
>
> I'm not sure I understand that one. Can you explain? Who would Alice in
> Wonderland be relevant to [ugh, to whom...]? Children?

Alan Perlis, Epigrams,
(<http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html>)
number 48. 

>> 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.

cheers, Rich.

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