We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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