Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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 is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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 software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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