It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISEvery program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
ALAN PERLISWhen someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISProgrammers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISI think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISWe toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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