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Alan Perlis

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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