It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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