Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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