A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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