Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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