"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."

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Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

Alan Perlis

#Hard Work Quotes #Problem Quotes #Easy Quotes

“Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.”
“Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.”
“There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.”
“I have worked with some great directors.”
“It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.”
“Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.”
“A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.”
“I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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