Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISIt 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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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