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Word Quotes by Alan Perlis
- In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
- In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
- In English every word can be verbed.
More Word Quotes
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- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda