A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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