Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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