I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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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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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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