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It Is Faster To Make A Four-inch Mirror Then A Six-inch Mirror Than To Make A Six-inch Mirror.
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It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make
a six-inch mirror.
-- Thompson's Rule for first-time telescope makers
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985
Related:
Whenever possible, steal code. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatedly.
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
Don't do it. -- The First Rule of Program Optimization Don't do it yet.
-- The Second Rule of Program Optimization (For experts only) -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep....
One person's constant is another person's variable.
-- Alan J. Perlis, "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
The job's not over until the paperwork's done. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep.
1985...
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built it.
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
One ostrich egg will serve 24 people for brunch. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep.
1985...