A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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