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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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