In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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