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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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