In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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