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Technology Quotes by Alan Perlis
- The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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