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.
ALAN PERLISA LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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