Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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