A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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