We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLIS
“Toward what end, toward what end?”- but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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