Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove 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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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