In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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