FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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