There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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