Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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