When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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