One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
ALAN PERLISEvery program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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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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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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In English every word can be verbed.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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