That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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