Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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 that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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