Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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