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Alan Perlis

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

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"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."

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"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."

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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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"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."

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"Having a job does not mean living."

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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"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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