Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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