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.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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