You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISIt goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
ALAN PERLISThe best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISProgrammers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
ALAN PERLISWe toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISOptimization hinders evolution.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISFORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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