Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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