Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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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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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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