When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
ALAN PERLIS
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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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 LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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