If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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