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.
ALAN PERLISThat it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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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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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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