When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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