Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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