What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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