Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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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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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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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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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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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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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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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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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