FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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