You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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