In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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