In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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 programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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