If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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