Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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