In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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 man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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