There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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