One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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