It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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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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