Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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 your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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