In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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