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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.”

“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.”

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Author:Neal Stephenson

“Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.”

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Author:Verity Stob

“Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.”

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Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.”

“Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.”

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Book:Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting

Source: Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting

“There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.”

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Author:John Ousterhout

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”