Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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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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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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