Dealing with failure is easy.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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