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ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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