In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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