What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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