Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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That 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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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