One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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