Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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“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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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