Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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