When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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