A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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