In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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