Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISWhen it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can 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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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