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ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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