C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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