“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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