Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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