One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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