We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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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 programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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