If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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