There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISA language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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