Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write 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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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