I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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