Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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