Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write 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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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