Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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