In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLIS“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
ALAN PERLISIn programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
ALAN PERLISC programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
ALAN PERLISA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
ALAN PERLISSome programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
ALAN PERLISOnce you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISI think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
ALAN PERLISFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISWhen 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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