That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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