In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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“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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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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