Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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 a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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