There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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