Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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