Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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