One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISI don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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