Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISFORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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