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Alan Perlis Quotes & Sayings
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26 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
Alan Perlis Topics
Intelligence
Software
Complexity
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
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LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
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It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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