Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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