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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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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