If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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