In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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