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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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