Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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