Optimization hinders evolution.
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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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 software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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