You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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