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ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Dealing with failure is easy.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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