Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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