In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISEvery program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISProgrammers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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