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When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content. — Richard E. Pattis
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after… — Richard E. Pattis
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Alan Perlis
Any noun can be verbed. — Alan Perlis
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… — Alan Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting… — Alan Perlis
Optimization hinders evolution. — Alan Perlis
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. — Alan Perlis
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… — Alan Perlis
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. — Rosamund Pike
Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. — Rosamund Pike
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with… — Plato
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there… — Jerry Pournelle
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… — Eric S. Raymond
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. — Guido van Rossum
Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are… — Roger Schank
There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one… — Roger Schank
Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users,… — Bruce Schneier
And simple truth miscalled simplicity — William Shakespeare

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