What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLIS
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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