Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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