“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.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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