Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLIS
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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