Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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