Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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