Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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“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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Any noun can be verbed.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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