Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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