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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
Explore more quotes by 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 attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
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