In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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