Errors Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Errors Inspirational Programmers Programming Reborn
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes. — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent. — Dan Kaminsky Copy Share Image
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. — Karl Lehenbauer Copy Share Image
“There are only 2 hard things in programming: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.” — Mattt Thompson Copy Share Image
A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
