Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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