If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISOne can only display complex information in the mind.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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