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Alan Perlis
April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990
Nationality: American
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: American Scientist

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

   

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

   

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

   

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?

   

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

   

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

   

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

   

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