One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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 English every word can be verbed.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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