A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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