A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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