Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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