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ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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