Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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