Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLIS
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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