Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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