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Alan Perlis Inspirational Quotes (56)

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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