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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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