Quote #10
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
More from Alan Perlis
- 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.
- Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
- In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
- Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
- In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
- Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
- In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.