Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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