In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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