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ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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