Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Learning 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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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