When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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