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Epigrams on Programming

Alan Perlis

"Epigrams on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language-neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted.

“58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”

Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

“64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”

Alan Perlis Epigrams on Programming

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

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