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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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 LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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