Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLIS