I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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