black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Related Topics

Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLIS

Affect Language Program Think Worth
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
ALAN PERLIS

Every Program Purpose Two Written
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS

Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLIS

Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLIS

Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLIS

Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLIS

Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLIS

Evolution Hinder Optimization
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLIS

Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLIS

Banality Nerve Our
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLIS

English Language Program Verb Word
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLIS

First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLIS

Else Error Everything Program Reborn
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLIS

Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes