That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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 the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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