Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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