In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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