That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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