You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLIS
ALAN PERLIS
More from Alan Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis You think you KNOW when you learn.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
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More on hard
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
Nicholas SparksNicholas Sparks One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
Ayn RandAyn Rand It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Dolly PartonDolly Parton It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.
Dolly PartonDolly Parton To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
John LewisJohn Lewis