One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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