Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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