In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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