I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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