I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows 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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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