Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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