If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write 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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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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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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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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