Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLIS
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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