It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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