That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
ALAN PERLISIf a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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