"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

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

Alan Perlis

#Writing Quotes #Errors Quotes #Two Quotes

“Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.”
“We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.”
“Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.”
“I think everything contributes to your creativity.”
“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”
“I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.”
“This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.”

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