In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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 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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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