C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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