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ALAN PERLISAre more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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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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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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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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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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