Optimization hinders evolution.
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 think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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 is no such thing as a free variable.
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