"You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

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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

#Writing Quotes #Learning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.”
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan
“Secrecy is the foundation of politics.”
“Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.”
“We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.”
“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.”
“I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.”
“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”

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