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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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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