I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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