What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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