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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
Eric S. Raymond
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Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.
Brian Greene
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The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
Werner Heisenberg
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
Alfred North Whitehead
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
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Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
Alex Kingston
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
William Gibson
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It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
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Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
William J. Clinton
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I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment get in the door in any position and work from within.
William Jackson
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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
Alan Rosenberg
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan Perlis
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan Perlis
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan Perlis
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Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
Alan Perlis
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Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan Perlis
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Alan Perlis
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There are two ways to write error-free programs only the third one works.
Alan Perlis
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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.
Alan Perlis
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
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And simple truth miscalled simplicity
William Shakespeare
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Alan Kay
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