Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISDealing with failure is easy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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