When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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