There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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