Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISAdapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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