I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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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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“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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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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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