If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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