In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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.
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