C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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