I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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