Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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