In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISFORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISEvery program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISWhen someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISWhen 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.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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