If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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