In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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