It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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