Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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