Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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 language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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