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ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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