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.
ALAN PERLISYou think you KNOW when you learn.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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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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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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