Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISWhat fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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