Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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