A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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