To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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