I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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