If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
ALAN PERLISTraining will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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“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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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