In English every word can be verbed.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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