Optimization hinders evolution.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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