Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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