It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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