Dealing with failure is easy.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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 are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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