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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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. 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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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