Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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