Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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