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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.
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Alan Perlis
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
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Alan Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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Kulawiec
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1
2 tons.
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Popular Mechanics, March 1949
In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.
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G. Hopper
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
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G. Hopper
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
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Bradley's Bromide
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
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Roger King
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
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James Magary
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
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Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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