Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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