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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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