One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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