Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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 good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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“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.
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