You think you KNOW when you learn.
ALAN PERLISIf you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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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 computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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