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Alan Perlis's own page listing the epigrams, in HTML for ease of readability, copying, and accessibility: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

• tosh 7y ago
  Interesting that the Yale website omits the last 10
  • gwern 7y ago
    It also has some subtle transcription errors, which is why I got a copy of the original to host & link instead. For example, I forget which, unfortunately, but one of the later ones makes zero sense in the HTML version, because it's based on some wordplay and the transcriber got a word wrong. (I always thought I was simply not getting it, until I got the original and rereading, realized that the problem wasn't me.)
    • tosh 7y ago
      #116 on the Yale Website: > You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. in the scanned original: > 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.
      • gwern 7y ago
        That might be it, yes.
• tosh 7y ago
  re copying: I am quite impressed with how far Chrome's pdf viewer is by now: selection and copying of text works. I wonder when this was added.