You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISBanality soothes our nerves.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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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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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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