There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLIS
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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