I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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The 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.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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