You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISYou can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISThe 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.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISOne can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISIn programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISA language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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