In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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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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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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