Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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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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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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