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ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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