In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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