Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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“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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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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