black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Related Topics

Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLIS

Better Data Function Operate Structure
One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLIS

Complex Display Information Mind Only
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLIS

Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLIS

Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLIS

Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLIS

Can Know Learn Sure Write
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
ALAN PERLIS

Every Program Purpose Two Written
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLIS

Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLIS

Deal Easy Failure
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLIS

Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLIS

Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLIS

Another Constant Man Variable
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLIS

Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLIS

Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
ALAN PERLIS

Anything Best Book Layman People Wonderland

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes