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ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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