Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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