Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
ALAN PERLISWe toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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