FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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