Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
ALAN PERLISA language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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