Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISA LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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