Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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