In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISThere is no such thing as a free variable.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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