We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISEvery reader should ask himself periodically.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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