Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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