Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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