Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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 man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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