A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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