Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISOne man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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In English every word can be verbed.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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