Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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“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.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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