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.
ALAN PERLISI 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.
ALAN PERLISProgrammers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISWe began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
ALAN PERLISA LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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