Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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