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Alan Perlis

"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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"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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"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
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