Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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