Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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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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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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