We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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