We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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