Any noun can be verbed.
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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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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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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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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