Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISWhen it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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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 began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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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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