A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLISWork hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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