Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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