Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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