C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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