A Quote by Alan Perlis

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Alan Perlis

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Alan Perlis
American - Scientist
April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

Douglas Crockford

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

Confucius

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.

Jeffrey Gitomer

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.

Donald Knuth

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Michel de Montaigne

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

Andrew Flintoff

They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

Peter Cameron

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

Petr Cech

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

Alan Perlis

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

Sam Altman

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

Nicholas Sparks

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

George Polya

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Dan Farmer

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