Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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