What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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