You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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