You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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