Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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