Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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