One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISLike seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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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.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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