One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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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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