You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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