Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In English every word can be verbed.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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