You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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