black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Related Topics

Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLIS

Better Data Function Operate Structure
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLIS

First Laboratory Motto Often Research Think Today Tomorrow Work
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.
ALAN PERLIS

Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLIS

Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLIS

Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLIS

Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLIS

Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLIS

English Language Language Programming Languages
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLIS

Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLIS

Complex Display Information Mind Only
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLIS

Every Program Long Rubble Run
When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLIS

Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLIS

Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLIS

Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLIS

Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLIS

Deal Easy Failure

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes