In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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