One can only display complex information in the mind.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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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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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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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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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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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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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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