A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLISIs it possible that software is not like anything else.
ALAN PERLISIf your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLISWe toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISFORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLIS“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
ALAN PERLISOften it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISDon’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISA language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLISI hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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