Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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