Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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