It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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