In English every word can be verbed.
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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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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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