In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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“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.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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