Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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