Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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