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ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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Optimization hinders evolution.
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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 year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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