In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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