C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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