Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I 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.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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