Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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