Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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