One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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