Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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 toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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