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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living defi

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

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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. – Alan Perlis

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Education
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You can measure a programmers perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. – Alan Perlis

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Attitude
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers dont have to be that good to be much better. – Marc Andreessen

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At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. – Howard Aiken

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I dont look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. – Magnus Carlsen

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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. – Linus Torvalds

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