Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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