C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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