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Alan Perlis Quotes: Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
         

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.


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



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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.



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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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