In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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