What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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