One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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