Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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