Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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