One can only display complex information in the mind.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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