Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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