Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISIn programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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