Quotes by Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to...

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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...

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word...

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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....

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for...

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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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