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Computing Quotes by Alan Perlis
- The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
- I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of…
- Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
- Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
- In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
- If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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