A Quote by Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Alan Perlis

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

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

I would argue that in the cyber arena, the need for private sector partnership is higher than really anywhere else of any program we have. So, the reality is we couldn't do what we do without the private sector, and vice versa.

Christopher A. Wray

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Sargent Shriver

I recognized a lot of Vogue in me and vice versa. We fit, we were very compatible together - even my mum thinks we're similar!

Spencer Matthews

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.

Indira Gandhi

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

Jenny Lawson

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

Henri Lefebvre

If you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning. Do something to shake it up.

Mark Knopfler

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

Douglas McCulloh

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Kevin Drum

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.