Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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