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.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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