Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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 picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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