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Alan Perlis

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

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"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

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"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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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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"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?"
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