Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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