One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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