What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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