Every reader should ask himself periodically.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with 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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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