Alan Perlis on everything
Alan Perlis73 quotes“A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.”
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Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis There is no such thing as a free variable.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite.
Ahmad ibn AjibaAhmad ibn Ajiba The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
AdyashantiAdyashanti Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk.
Agyness DeynAgyness Deyn Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
Agrippina VaganovaAgrippina Vaganova Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.
Agyness DeynAgyness Deyn But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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