Banality soothes our nerves.
ALAN PERLISAny noun can be verbed.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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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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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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