In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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