If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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 are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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