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101 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.

— Alan Perlis

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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Computer science is neither mathematics nor electrical engineering.

A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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