We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
ALAN PERLISWe are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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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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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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