When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
ALAN PERLISA picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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