Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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