In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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