One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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