There is no such thing as a free variable.
ALAN PERLISIn software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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