A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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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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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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