Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLIS
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.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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