A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLIS
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.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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