Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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