"Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't."

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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

#Two Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Program Quotes

“Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.”
“The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.”
“Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.”
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”
“Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.”
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”
“Hungry people have especially clear minds.”

Source : "Do we still care about sweatshops?" by Douglas Haddow, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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