That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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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 year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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