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ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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