In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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