Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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