Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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