Optimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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