Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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