When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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