It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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