If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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