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.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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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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