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4 Alan Perlis Quotes on Software

Alan Perlis quotes on software

  1. Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

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

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

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  4. 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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