In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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