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Alan Perlis Quotes: In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
         

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.


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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.



Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.



Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.



When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.



It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.



In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.



There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.



A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.



Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.



If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.





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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.



No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.



It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit

It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit



Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.



Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.



I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.




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