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Alan Perlis

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

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"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."
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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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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove 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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"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."
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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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"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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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
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