Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLIS
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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