C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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