Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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.
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