We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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