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ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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