Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISWhen someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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