Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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