Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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