We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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 are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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