I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Any noun can be verbed.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows 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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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