One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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