Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
ALAN PERLIS
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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 it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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