Alan Perlis Quotes on Software
-
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
-
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
-
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?