Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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